Re: Occupy BNSF
Author: WAF
Date: 12-03-2011 - 14:35
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> > Anyone remember the protest/sit in in
> Livermore,
> > Ca. years ago? A bunch of people protesting, I
> > think the Livermore Lab, and occupied the rail.
> > One guy decided the engine would stop, and had
> an
> > extremity cut off.....
>
> Not Livermore. It was on the Concord Naval
> Weapons railroad and involved a train that was
> headed to Port Chicago. The guy's name is Brian
> Wilson (not of the Beach Boys). And yes, he
> succeded in stopping it.
>
> Protesters used to sit on the SP tracks in
> Berkeley, too.
And stop troop trains with soldiers heading for Vietnam. I remember one that came in on the Santa Fe on its Oakland Branch and they used the steam from the Fs boilers to disburse the protesters